10 Jun 08 iPhone SDK downloaded over 250,000 times

This press release from Apple states that since it was released for download on March 6, the iPhone SDK has been downloaded over 250,000 times.  Although I think this number might be a little deceiving, it is pretty amazing that a software development kit was downloaded over a quarter of a million times in only about 3 months time.  I think that many of the people that downloaded the SDK are small developers and individuals that want to tinker around and learn xcode development.  To me, this is a good thing because that means that it is very accesible as wwell as enticing to many different people.  Obviously it looks so easy that all kinds of people are downloading it playing around with it.

But I do think that the number of downloads that was announced is a higher than the total number of people that are using the iPhone SDK.  Personally, I have downloaded the SDK at least 5 times.  The first time I tried it on a G4 mac and it wouldn’t work.  So then I downloaded it again on a MacBook.  Then each time they released a new version I downloaded and installed that.  Just think of all the other people that encountered the same problems when downloading the SDK, and you can easily see how this number is slightly misleading.